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Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
When I look back on my life at the things God has allowed me to do and
the opportunities He has opened up, I can see the wisdom of His
perfect timing.
Our tendency is to rush things. But just because something hasn't
happened in your life today doesn't mean it won't happen tomorrow.
Just because it doesn't happen tomorrow doesn't mean it won't happen
a month from now or a year from now. Maybe one phase of your life is
ending and another is beginning. Maybe everything that has happened
to you up to this point in your life has been preparation for what is still
ahead.
Moses didn't get going until he was 80. Then there was Caleb, another
Israelite who left Egypt in the Exodus. Along with Joshua, Caleb came
back full of optimism and belief when they were sent to spy out the
Promised Land. But when the Israelites believed the pessimistic report
of the ten other spies, God was so displeased that He refused to allow
them to enter the land.
Years later, when Joshua led a new generation of Israelites into the
Promised Land, Caleb was among them. And at 80 years old, he said
to Joshua, "So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You
will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living
there. . . But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just
as the Lord said" (Joshua 14:12).
Joshua gave him his little segment of land as was promised, and Caleb
drove out all of its inhabitants. Caleb believed God's promises, and
God was faithful. We need to do the same.
Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time.
— Ecclesiastes 3:11
When I look back on my life at the things God has allowed me to do and
the opportunities He has opened up, I can see the wisdom of His
perfect timing.
Our tendency is to rush things. But just because something hasn't
happened in your life today doesn't mean it won't happen tomorrow.
Just because it doesn't happen tomorrow doesn't mean it won't happen
a month from now or a year from now. Maybe one phase of your life is
ending and another is beginning. Maybe everything that has happened
to you up to this point in your life has been preparation for what is still
ahead.
Moses didn't get going until he was 80. Then there was Caleb, another
Israelite who left Egypt in the Exodus. Along with Joshua, Caleb came
back full of optimism and belief when they were sent to spy out the
Promised Land. But when the Israelites believed the pessimistic report
of the ten other spies, God was so displeased that He refused to allow
them to enter the land.
Years later, when Joshua led a new generation of Israelites into the
Promised Land, Caleb was among them. And at 80 years old, he said
to Joshua, "So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You
will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living
there. . . But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just
as the Lord said" (Joshua 14:12).
Joshua gave him his little segment of land as was promised, and Caleb
drove out all of its inhabitants. Caleb believed God's promises, and
God was faithful. We need to do the same.
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